How Sugarhill Gang Made “Rapper’s Delight”
Of the 1979 hit, Guy ‘Master Gee’ O’Brien says: ‘I thought we’d made the first rap record. Then I was at a party and heard the Fatback Band’s King Tim III, which featured rapping with singing. I thought someone had beat us to the punch. But they’d made it a B-side. Ours became a smash.’
